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he praised outgoing secretary tim geithner. if confirmed, he would take over the treasury department's before the white house and congress debates the debt ceiling. this is 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states accompanied by some of tim geithner and sap jack lew. >> men, everybody, please have a seat. a little more than four years ago, i stood with mr. tim geithner and denounced him as my first to my cabinet. we were barely two months into the financial crisis, the stock market have quivered, the housing market had cratered as well, a bank after bank was on the verge of collapse, and worst of all, more than 800,000 americans would lose their jobs in just a bad month. and the bottom was not yet in sight. i cannot blame tim when he told me he was not the right guy for the job. [laughter] extensivet tim's experience with economic policy made him qualified and i knew he could hit the ground running. as chairman of the new york federal reserve, he had just spent several sleepless and chaotic weeks
he praised outgoing secretary tim geithner. if confirmed, he would take over the treasury department's before the white house and congress debates the debt ceiling. this is 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states accompanied by some of tim geithner and sap jack lew. >> men, everybody, please have a seat. a little more than four years ago, i stood with mr. tim geithner and denounced him as my first to my cabinet. we were barely two months into the...
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tim geithner's legacy, he's going to be remembered the architect of too bid big to fail. he had the opportunity to go in and correct a lot of problems, restore fiscal honesty and transparency in the system and instead, they papered over the problem and threw a lot of money at corrupt failing institutions and they created these sort of monsters that now we have to publicly back even when they're laundering money for terrorists and drug dealers. >> you write an article like this, it give s youstrange bedfellows and puts you into bed with a lot of conservatives who say we shouldn't have had the bailout. >> i believe it should have been done differently with conditions. it should have been done in a way that encouraged rans parency instead of papering over problems. but i do believe this is an inherently conservative issue. i think there should be some linkage between liberals and conservatives because it's not partisan issue at all. >> it's a good read. matt's article called "secrets and lies of the bailout," a contributing editor with rolling stone. coming up, this hi-tech
tim geithner's legacy, he's going to be remembered the architect of too bid big to fail. he had the opportunity to go in and correct a lot of problems, restore fiscal honesty and transparency in the system and instead, they papered over the problem and threw a lot of money at corrupt failing institutions and they created these sort of monsters that now we have to publicly back even when they're laundering money for terrorists and drug dealers. >> you write an article like this, it give s...
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>> now -- now they say tim geithner will go to the head of the federal reserve. [laughter] i think he has had his do but it is a close relationship. it is with the entire board and not just the chairman. on lot of people have known them for long time. lori: who will handicap the next fed chief? >> double not speculate. >> you were working with a t.a.r.p. with we heard hank greenberg would sue the government and then the shea said we will not be involved. what is your thoughts? >> when i saw the headline i thought it was a satire peace. we must ensure that they never bailout again. we may have lost an opportunity. >> about the ag current board? >> with old fifth amendment seizure. >> they could say we do not want that environment. lori: we appreciate your insight. much more with the jack lew nomination with the the "a team". >> state of emergency new york city lights the flu outbreak. the scary numbers are ahead. florida has its own plan to deal with the snakes. the python challenge. wildly popular created by the $1 billion industry better graphically violent vide
>> now -- now they say tim geithner will go to the head of the federal reserve. [laughter] i think he has had his do but it is a close relationship. it is with the entire board and not just the chairman. on lot of people have known them for long time. lori: who will handicap the next fed chief? >> double not speculate. >> you were working with a t.a.r.p. with we heard hank greenberg would sue the government and then the shea said we will not be involved. what is your thoughts?...
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tim geithner was a banking man tapped to handle a banking crisis. jack lew is a budget guy being brought in to handle the government's fiscal disaster. on the hill, a handful of republicans oppose lew's confirmation but survived the process twice in four years at omb director and deputy secretary of state. we have jake sherman here. we're hearing yet another white man added to a cabinet with quite a few white men and dwindling number of females s. the president and the team feeling president to add some more diverse faces to the team? >> they released a photo showing that president obama does, in fact, have female advisers in the inner circle and more opportunities yesterday. solis said she was stepping down from the labor department which she ran since the beginning of the administration. transportation is a role that they've been wishy-washy on whether ray la hood would say and more opportunities. susan rice is still around but a pr disaster for the white house. on the front page of "new york times," not something you want to do as trying to get y
tim geithner was a banking man tapped to handle a banking crisis. jack lew is a budget guy being brought in to handle the government's fiscal disaster. on the hill, a handful of republicans oppose lew's confirmation but survived the process twice in four years at omb director and deputy secretary of state. we have jake sherman here. we're hearing yet another white man added to a cabinet with quite a few white men and dwindling number of females s. the president and the team feeling president to...
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few embody that ideal better than tim geithner. that's why when tim was thinking about leaving a couple of years ago, i had to personally get on my knees with carol, to help convince limb it stay on a little bit longer. and i could not be more grateful to carol and the entire geithner family for allowing him to make the sacrifices that so many of our cabinet members ask of their families. in serving the country. the fact is, while a lot of work remains, especially to rebuild a strong middle class and offer working folks new pathways to rise into the middle class, our economy is better positioned for tomorrow than most of those other countries hit by the financial crisis. the tough decisions tim made and carried out deserve a lot of credit for that. so i understand that tim is ready for a break. obviously we're sad to see him go. but i cannot think of a better person to continue tim's work at treasury than jack lew. this is bitter sweet, not only because tim is leaving. but also because jack's been my chief of staff for the last yea
few embody that ideal better than tim geithner. that's why when tim was thinking about leaving a couple of years ago, i had to personally get on my knees with carol, to help convince limb it stay on a little bit longer. and i could not be more grateful to carol and the entire geithner family for allowing him to make the sacrifices that so many of our cabinet members ask of their families. in serving the country. the fact is, while a lot of work remains, especially to rebuild a strong middle...
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the fdic in the room, tim geithner, chairman ben bernanke. we did not at that point need tarp. we were asked to, because we were told incorrectly, if nine banks take this tarp, we can stop the sysm from going down. we did not borrow from the federal reserve except when they ask us to. they said, please use these facilities. it makes it easier. we were not bailed out by aig. we may be would of had a direct loss of $1 billion or $2 billion if aig went down. >> you have a difference of opinion of many analyy s who felt the aig bailout did benefit you enormously. i'm not going into this. this is not your hearing. i'm asking you to respond to questions. i only have five minutes. >> that was oregon democratic senator questioning jamie dimon from jpmorgan. the significance? >> one thing that is interesting is this is what the about inspector calls -- calls for original sin. the moment in time went right after tarp was passed and the government elected to call companies that were unhealthy and insolvent, healthy and solvent. when they scrapped the plan to buy out troubled assets, tarp
the fdic in the room, tim geithner, chairman ben bernanke. we did not at that point need tarp. we were asked to, because we were told incorrectly, if nine banks take this tarp, we can stop the sysm from going down. we did not borrow from the federal reserve except when they ask us to. they said, please use these facilities. it makes it easier. we were not bailed out by aig. we may be would of had a direct loss of $1 billion or $2 billion if aig went down. >> you have a difference of...
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both tim geithner and jack lew speaking, tim geithner never i think his default position is his face it looks he never looks happy to be there. he may have been but he didn't look that way. jack lew i think got a very nice description from the president, low-key, someone that gets things done and what we hear about him. >> well, thanks to you, chris, our great thanks to ruth marcus and susan paige and elizabeth bue-miller. it was fun today. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tamron hall is here with a look at the next hour. >> we are following several big stories. coming up, the minister set to deliver the benediction at the president's inauguration withdraws after comments in the '90s of gay rights and referred to as the homosexual lifestyle. the inaugural committee said it was unaware of the minister's past. right now, vice president biden is meeting with the nra. the vice president says tuesday is the day, we can mark our calendars, he'll deliver the task force recommendations to the president. what might we see? >>> charlie rangel has harsh words for the
both tim geithner and jack lew speaking, tim geithner never i think his default position is his face it looks he never looks happy to be there. he may have been but he didn't look that way. jack lew i think got a very nice description from the president, low-key, someone that gets things done and what we hear about him. >> well, thanks to you, chris, our great thanks to ruth marcus and susan paige and elizabeth bue-miller. it was fun today. that does it for this edition of "andrea...
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all signs point to president obama say i knowing him to replace tim geithner. and if he is nominated and confirmed, that will mean that our money might end up looking like this. because that is jack lew's signature on it. if he doesn't choose to tune up the legibility of the loop de loops like tim geithner did, our money mite look like this. what "new york" magazine described as a slinky that has lost its spring, republicans in washington are hinting that we won't actually have to worry about seeing jack lew's wacky signature on our money. they're saying he doesn't have to worry about changing the signature to it looks good on the money because he, jack lew, will never be the guy who has to actually sign the money. he will never be treasury secretary. potico.com today to be, quote, scoffing at the notion of jack lew as treasury secretary. mitch mcconnell is said to have been irked by mr. lew in the past. republican senator from nebraska, mike johanns called lew a controversial pick. the reasonable he is controversial is, quote, i think there are nick policies i
all signs point to president obama say i knowing him to replace tim geithner. and if he is nominated and confirmed, that will mean that our money might end up looking like this. because that is jack lew's signature on it. if he doesn't choose to tune up the legibility of the loop de loops like tim geithner did, our money mite look like this. what "new york" magazine described as a slinky that has lost its spring, republicans in washington are hinting that we won't actually have to...
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are acting as if tim geithner had the final say on all of this. they keep bringing up the $50,000 he owed in taxes is are redundant and old. was talk about some of the things he did right. it is so negative it. that is what is bringing this country down more than anything is the constant negative attitude. host: charleston, west virginia, republican line. caller: good morning. how are you? mr. geiger's legacy is that he was part of a team who came into office when this country was heading toward a fiscal chasm, an abyss, not just a cliff. he and his team pushed the gas pedal to the floor. i had a real opportunity to do something positive in this country and allow people to keep more of what they earn at. they did exactly the opposite. i cannot believe that these people who are doing this to our country are so stupid. they just do not know any better. i think they know exactly what they are doing. at least 51% of the american people voted not once, but twice to keep that gas pedal pushed firmly to the floor so that we go directly over the chasm and
are acting as if tim geithner had the final say on all of this. they keep bringing up the $50,000 he owed in taxes is are redundant and old. was talk about some of the things he did right. it is so negative it. that is what is bringing this country down more than anything is the constant negative attitude. host: charleston, west virginia, republican line. caller: good morning. how are you? mr. geiger's legacy is that he was part of a team who came into office when this country was heading...
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but to depict the treasury secretary, generally speaking, it is a job that converts tim geithner will know what his politics were. wall street was comfortable with him. neil: layoffs were announced today with american express. >> well, look, it's the greatest thing the world that taxes will go up on 99% of the people. and spending will go unchecked. it's that our government. it's bad for our country long-term. that is exactly what we see, and you are seeing something similar act in 1824 when we had the jacksonians that they block whatever they were going to do. neil: there is something that touched her greatness. a greatness of the movie. hollywood sees this opportunity to do more of this type of stuff. is that true? >> more of what? >> one historical movies. neil: ben affleck was nominated for a movie he was an. >> in. >> yes, i think he has a career in movies. but not in politics. i think he is going to do well and do his next project. also don't forget that the director was snubbed for "zero dark thirty." neil: is that right? so hollywood could be reversing that. >> maybe they are
but to depict the treasury secretary, generally speaking, it is a job that converts tim geithner will know what his politics were. wall street was comfortable with him. neil: layoffs were announced today with american express. >> well, look, it's the greatest thing the world that taxes will go up on 99% of the people. and spending will go unchecked. it's that our government. it's bad for our country long-term. that is exactly what we see, and you are seeing something similar act in 1824...
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[laughter] no one embodies that ideal better than tim geithner. i had to get on my knees two years ago to convince him to stay on a little bit longer, and i could not be more grateful to carol and the entire geithner family for allowing him to make the sacrifices that are cabinet members ask of their families in serving their country. the fact is, while a lot of work remains, especially to build new pathways for working folks to rise into the middle class, our position is better for tomorrow than most of the countries hit by the financial crisis. the tough decisions have been made and carried out. i understand that tim is ready for a break. obviously, we are sad to see him go. i cannot think of a better person to continue tim's work at the treasury than jack lew. this is bittersweet not only because tim is leaving, but because jack has been my chief of staff for the last year. he was my budget director before that. i trust his judgment. i know fewer people with greater integrity than the man to my left. i do not want him to go, because it is worki
[laughter] no one embodies that ideal better than tim geithner. i had to get on my knees two years ago to convince him to stay on a little bit longer, and i could not be more grateful to carol and the entire geithner family for allowing him to make the sacrifices that are cabinet members ask of their families in serving their country. the fact is, while a lot of work remains, especially to build new pathways for working folks to rise into the middle class, our position is better for tomorrow...
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we've had tim geithner there the entire time, gene sperling has been there the entire time and now we're expecting for the head of the fod leave and that's more upheaval. >> it is true that jack lew has been part of the establishment. the president likes people with whom he's comfortable but there's a huge decision coming up. ben bernanke's term is up in january 2014. it's clear he doesn't want another term and that's a big decision of lasting consequences. gwen: it never calms down. second-term presidents often leave their most lasting stamp on foreign policy. if that happens this time, a lot of the outcome will depend on three men who went before the cameras this week -- defense secretary nominee chuck hagel, c.i.a. choice john brennan. and today, hamid karzai, the president of afghanistan both he and the president were talking about the end of america's longest war. >> every day more afghans are stepping up and taking responsibility for their own security, and as they do, our troops will come home. and next year this long war will come to a responsible end. >> once the transition to a
we've had tim geithner there the entire time, gene sperling has been there the entire time and now we're expecting for the head of the fod leave and that's more upheaval. >> it is true that jack lew has been part of the establishment. the president likes people with whom he's comfortable but there's a huge decision coming up. ben bernanke's term is up in january 2014. it's clear he doesn't want another term and that's a big decision of lasting consequences. gwen: it never calms down....
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this dollar bill has tim geithner's signature on it. what does jack lew's signature look like? we have one document after another that bears his signature. and there it is. this is how it would look on a dollar bill. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. >> as long as it's on money, it looks okay to me. the irs is calling on congress to simplify the tax code. the u.s. tax law contains more than 4 million words. trying to fill out their tax returns. that's according to the internal revenue services omsbu dsm an. 60% of filers will end up hiring someone else to do their taxes. >> probably a great way to go so you don't have to worry about messing it up and getting a call saying you owe me. >> great news for local schools. find out who ranks the best in the nation. >> and how about a bowl of humor for breakfast this morning. comedian/magician kevin lee is live. and he's serving up a performance you want to stick around for. time to check in with holly morris. >> reporter: you know what could be funny? we're doing antique appraisals and allison sent something in and might be worth
this dollar bill has tim geithner's signature on it. what does jack lew's signature look like? we have one document after another that bears his signature. and there it is. this is how it would look on a dollar bill. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. >> as long as it's on money, it looks okay to me. the irs is calling on congress to simplify the tax code. the u.s. tax law contains more than 4 million words. trying to fill out their tax returns. that's according to the internal...
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tim geithner headed the bank of new york. he doesn't have the ties to wall street that a wall street executive might provide. jack lew did work at citigroup briefly, but he doesn't have deep ties there. this is a government person, but the president decided that that's what he needs in a time when he will have a pro trektive fight with republicans over spending cuts, over the budget, over the debt ceiling. this is where jack lew's experience and knowledge can come in and i would expect, sue, and tyler, that he would be confirmed pretty easily. even though he has tough questioning at confirmation. >> let's bring in steve liesman. he is low drama, low confrontation. he doesn't have wall street regulatory. who is lew? >> i think the first theng i will do is begin the series of puns beginning with jack lew's name. let me say more about jack lew, we call this one, you don't know jack. >> of course you do. >> this is a financial education. beginning with harvard and georgetown. but that never disqualified anybody. tip o'neill 93 an
tim geithner headed the bank of new york. he doesn't have the ties to wall street that a wall street executive might provide. jack lew did work at citigroup briefly, but he doesn't have deep ties there. this is a government person, but the president decided that that's what he needs in a time when he will have a pro trektive fight with republicans over spending cuts, over the budget, over the debt ceiling. this is where jack lew's experience and knowledge can come in and i would expect, sue,...
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few embody that ideal better than tim geithner. >> tim geithner looks like he is about to explode with laughter listening to the president say that but the phrase is no peacocks, no jerks, no whiners. i mean jerks and whiners, we all get that. but the peacocks part here i think is a term of art. i don't think they mean peacocks in a generic way, i think they mean in a way that is specific to the treasury. here is what i mean. peacocks as birds are strutters, right? they puff their chests out. they like making a big show of their big fantastic feathers, and no offense to our corporate overlords, i'm aware that you can see one particular tiny little peacock often at the top of our screen right now while i am talking. in politics, the peacock metaphor means you are talking about somebody who struts and doesn't deserve to be strutting. someone who talks the talk, but doesn't really walk the walk. and in the case of the treasury in particular, the president's no peacocks line was put into further context when he went on in his remarks to introduce the new treasury secretary nominee just a f
few embody that ideal better than tim geithner. >> tim geithner looks like he is about to explode with laughter listening to the president say that but the phrase is no peacocks, no jerks, no whiners. i mean jerks and whiners, we all get that. but the peacocks part here i think is a term of art. i don't think they mean peacocks in a generic way, i think they mean in a way that is specific to the treasury. here is what i mean. peacocks as birds are strutters, right? they puff their chests...
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this at the time that president obama has picked jack lew to replace tim geithner as treasury secretary. whoever runs the jaret -- the treasury has a critical job. so far, 2013 has been marked by fighting over the fiscal could. but americans say they are looking for solutions, decisions. we have the ceo of accounting giant duch joining me from -- deloit joining me from new york. what would your message be to the new secretary, jack lew? >> my message to jack, as well as what novartis said to the president is to get on to -- what i have already said to the president is to get on with solving the fiscal cliff issue. there are some big deadline's coming up in march between sequestration and the budget resolution as well as the bigger issue around the debt ceiling. and then we need to get to the longer-term issues in terms of where america is going, and that starts with tax reform as well as immigration issues and infrastructure issues. >> i hear the same message from business people across the country. we need more certainty from washington if we're going to kick start growth in this econo
this at the time that president obama has picked jack lew to replace tim geithner as treasury secretary. whoever runs the jaret -- the treasury has a critical job. so far, 2013 has been marked by fighting over the fiscal could. but americans say they are looking for solutions, decisions. we have the ceo of accounting giant duch joining me from -- deloit joining me from new york. what would your message be to the new secretary, jack lew? >> my message to jack, as well as what novartis said...
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. -- tim geithner. this is 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, accompanied by tim geithner and jack lew. >> a little more than four years ago i stood with mr. tim geithner, the first nominee to my cabinet. we were two months into the financial crisis. the stock market had cratered. bank after bank was on the verge of collapse. worst of all, more than 800,000 americans would lose their jobs in just that month. at the bottom was probably not yet in sight. i could not blame tim when he told me he was not the right guy for the job. [laughter] but on news that tim's extensive experience with economic policy made him eminently qualified and i knew he could hit the ground running. as chairman of the federal reserve, he had just spent chaotic weeks emerged in the crisis and had been working with the treasury to save the financial system. then when the wreckage -- with the wreckage of our economy still smoldering, i asked tim to help us put it back together. thanks in large p
. -- tim geithner. this is 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, accompanied by tim geithner and jack lew. >> a little more than four years ago i stood with mr. tim geithner, the first nominee to my cabinet. we were two months into the financial crisis. the stock market had cratered. bank after bank was on the verge of collapse. worst of all, more than 800,000 americans would lose their jobs in just that month. at the bottom was probably not yet in...
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are written tim geithner's going to go down as one of our finest secretaries of the treasury. our economy is better positioned for tomorrow than most of those other countries hit by the financial crisis. the tough decisions tim made and carried out deserve a lot of credit for that. >> brown: at 57, lew is already a 30-year veteran of washington. he was a principal domestic policy advisor to house speaker tip o'neill in the 1980's, and negotiated with the reagan white house on social security and tax reform. later, he served two stints as the country's budget director, first under president clinton, then under president obama, before becoming white house chief of staff. today, in the east room of the white house, the nominee voiced his gratitude. >> thank you mr. president for your trust confidence and friendship. serving in your administration has allowed me to live out those values my parents ensiled in me and i look forward to continuing with the challenges ahead. >> brown: lew, and other top administration officials, face the immediate tskf o negotiating with republicans on
are written tim geithner's going to go down as one of our finest secretaries of the treasury. our economy is better positioned for tomorrow than most of those other countries hit by the financial crisis. the tough decisions tim made and carried out deserve a lot of credit for that. >> brown: at 57, lew is already a 30-year veteran of washington. he was a principal domestic policy advisor to house speaker tip o'neill in the 1980's, and negotiated with the reagan white house on social...
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you recently did, as you know that great interview with tim geithner right here on the "closing bell." how well do you know lew? >> not as well. he was at omb for a brief time, a couple years in this administration, his second go-round there. look, we're learning more about him, and i don't think there's very much mystery here. he would be picked for the job because he's a budget expert, and that also he's a loyalist inside the obama administration and in a place that values loyalty like a lot of white houses, and the question becomes does he have other critical qualifications that say wall street or the international banking and financial system would require, with the big question being, you know, if we were at a place where there was another financial crisis, how well would jack lew, as did robert ruben, hank paulsen and tim geithner do to instill confidence? >> steve, you were right on the money with the jack lew prediction. you and i had this conversation, but i just wonder, you know, there's this antagonistic relationship between the white house and business. >> right. >> there
you recently did, as you know that great interview with tim geithner right here on the "closing bell." how well do you know lew? >> not as well. he was at omb for a brief time, a couple years in this administration, his second go-round there. look, we're learning more about him, and i don't think there's very much mystery here. he would be picked for the job because he's a budget expert, and that also he's a loyalist inside the obama administration and in a place that values...
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tim geithner had a messy signature on 4is back but in the bill it's completely lenlible. looks like alexander hamilton. >>> next aig has thought better about suing the federal government over the terms of the 2008 bank bailout. yes, the same taxpayer funded bailout that brought them $200 billion and saved them from bankruptcy. anyway, before the news of the potential lawsuit aig launched an ad campaign thanking taxpayers for the bailout money. in light of the planned lawsuit, conan o'brien offered an alternati alternative. >> aig, we said we were going to turn it around and we did. >> we're now leaner and focused on what we do best. >> a profit of more than $22 billion. >> we turned it around. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> from all of us at aigp seriously america, go [ bleep ] yourselves. >> it's tough to see how they even toyed with the idea of a lawsuit against the same government that saved them from bankruptcy. >>> next, if you're in congress and planning to oppose the next round of victims of hurricane sandy you b
tim geithner had a messy signature on 4is back but in the bill it's completely lenlible. looks like alexander hamilton. >>> next aig has thought better about suing the federal government over the terms of the 2008 bank bailout. yes, the same taxpayer funded bailout that brought them $200 billion and saved them from bankruptcy. anyway, before the news of the potential lawsuit aig launched an ad campaign thanking taxpayers for the bailout money. in light of the planned lawsuit, conan...
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geithner set to step down at the end of the month. so, kim, tell us about jack lew, who is he? what does he believe? >> well, he's mostly, i think, this is important, a creature of washington. he had a brief interlude out at citigroup, but a lot of time working in a political capacity and does in fact make him a much different creature for a position like the treasury secretary than we have in the past, folks who have come from that often out of the business world, established economists, might come from the fed. this is a person viewed by congress and many, by many people here in washington a more of an ideologue. >> and with the clinton administration, i know republicans thought he was an honest liberal, anybody he's emerged under this president as much more implacable. and mr. lew makes a lot of appearances, almost always in the role, when you see mr. obama and boehner making progress. he throws the monkey wrench and pretty much tanking the negotiations and makes him poison for republicans and a problem in his capacity as treasury
geithner set to step down at the end of the month. so, kim, tell us about jack lew, who is he? what does he believe? >> well, he's mostly, i think, this is important, a creature of washington. he had a brief interlude out at citigroup, but a lot of time working in a political capacity and does in fact make him a much different creature for a position like the treasury secretary than we have in the past, folks who have come from that often out of the business world, established economists,...
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geithner. a sign the white house expects a big fight over the federal budget lew is the safe pick. he has been confirmed twice by the senate before. just in this administration. if confirmed in time, he can face his first test next month over the debt ceiling. lew is a walk among walks. described in one profile by the huffington post. quote, as harry potter grew up and replaced his magic wand with excel spread sheets. if confirmed lew will be the highest ranking orthodox you don't in government. he grew up in queens. brings his own lunch to work. chose sandwich and an apple which he eats at his desk and still commutes back and forth to new york. catching a train home every friday to spend weekends with his wife. he is well liked in the white house. the p came to depend to the act not many people in washington know the budgeting process. >> jack's economic advice has been invaluable and he has my complete trust both because of his mastery of the numbers but because of the values behind those num
geithner. a sign the white house expects a big fight over the federal budget lew is the safe pick. he has been confirmed twice by the senate before. just in this administration. if confirmed in time, he can face his first test next month over the debt ceiling. lew is a walk among walks. described in one profile by the huffington post. quote, as harry potter grew up and replaced his magic wand with excel spread sheets. if confirmed lew will be the highest ranking orthodox you don't in...
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are written tim geithner's going to go down as one of our finest secretaries of the treasury. our economy is better positioned for tomorrow than most of those other countries hit by the financial crisis. the tough decisions tim made and carried out deserve a lot of credit for that. >> brown: at 57, lew is already a 30-year veteran of washington. he was a principal domestic policy advisor to house speaker tip o'neill in the 1980's, and negotiated with the reagan white house on social security and tax reform. later, he served two stints as the country's budget director first under president clinton, then under president obama before becoming white house chief of staff. today, in the east room of the white house, the nominee voiced his gratitude. >> thank you mr. president for your trust confidence and friendship. serving in your administration has allowed me to live out those values my parents ensiled in me and i look forward to continuing with the challenges ahead. >> brown: lew, and other top administration officials, face the immediate task of negotiating with republicans on
are written tim geithner's going to go down as one of our finest secretaries of the treasury. our economy is better positioned for tomorrow than most of those other countries hit by the financial crisis. the tough decisions tim made and carried out deserve a lot of credit for that. >> brown: at 57, lew is already a 30-year veteran of washington. he was a principal domestic policy advisor to house speaker tip o'neill in the 1980's, and negotiated with the reagan white house on social...
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. >> role of tim geithner as taeshry secretary is nearing the end. we are learning more about the president's likely pick to replace him. john harwood joining us from washington. john, what can you tell us about jack lew? >> brian, jack lew is currently white house chief of staff. serving in a very low key way in that capacity. he is a long time government servant. former aid to tip o'neill. he has experience at all of the issues coming up before congress. he has experience as hillary clinton's chief of staff. he will leave a void that in replacing rom emmanuel. who is very valuable and controversy. but jack lew is opposite of that. he thinks he las the set of skills he needs among candidates to replace jack lew as chous chief of staff. one source tells me set leading candidate. we will see if that announcement is made tomorrow as is jack lew for treasury. >> if jack lew is secretary treasury, it'll look something like this, whatever that is. accidentally, tim geithner had a different signature but changed it for the green back. ma maybe jack lew wil
. >> role of tim geithner as taeshry secretary is nearing the end. we are learning more about the president's likely pick to replace him. john harwood joining us from washington. john, what can you tell us about jack lew? >> brian, jack lew is currently white house chief of staff. serving in a very low key way in that capacity. he is a long time government servant. former aid to tip o'neill. he has experience at all of the issues coming up before congress. he has experience as...
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few embody that ideal better than tim geithner. that's why when tim was thinking about leaving a couple of years ago -- [ laughter ] >> i had to personally get on my knees with carol to help convince him to stay on a little bit longer. and i could not be more grateful to carol and the entire geithner family for allowing him to make the sacrifices that so many of our cabinet members ask of their families in serving the country. the fact is while a lot of work remains, especially to rebuild a strong middle class and offer working folks new pathways to rise into the middle class, our economy is better positioned for tomorrow than most of those other countries hit by the financial crisis. the tough decisions tim made and carried out deserve a lot credit for that. so i understand that tim is ready for a break. obviously we're sad to see him go. but i cannot think of a better person to continue tim's work at treasury than jack lew. now this is bittersweet not only because tim's leaving, but also because jack's been my chief of staff for
few embody that ideal better than tim geithner. that's why when tim was thinking about leaving a couple of years ago -- [ laughter ] >> i had to personally get on my knees with carol to help convince him to stay on a little bit longer. and i could not be more grateful to carol and the entire geithner family for allowing him to make the sacrifices that so many of our cabinet members ask of their families in serving the country. the fact is while a lot of work remains, especially to rebuild...